I’ve been down a couple of tombs and caves of different styles, but there have also been “Phase Beast Challenge” maps that add some very superficial puzzling to the mix too. The overworld is populated with sporadic side quests and optional dungeons to keep the larger expanses in check. No more is it five levels of mine then five levels of cave then five levels of something else, but pleasant chunks of outdoor overworld that lead into more but shorter dungeons. I said that in Torchlight each biome seemed to overstay its welcome, and so far Torchlight II has introduced much more variety, or at least faster cuts between varied areas. Otherwise, it’s a tune-up and a massive content boost. That means that my proposed control scheme (or rather, Nox‘s control scheme), where left-click is only attack and right-click is only move, would surely fit perfectly and not even be difficult to implement here! So close, Torchlight, so close! There is also a good bit more narrative this time, though it’s still fairly cursory. Interestingly, weapons seem to have an arc of damage too - so attacking the single enemy directly under your cursor may well take out three or four of their neighbours too. Even if the solution has been to give every enemy a much more generous hitbox, it has definitely improved if not achieved Nox-like perfection. Thankfully that ambiguous attack/move is actually much less ambiguous this time anyway. Unfortunately left-click is still an ambiguous move/attack rather than solely an attack button, but almost there! I’ve put the skills I care about into QWER and I’ve even managed to make the right-click button make the hero only move. Luckily, one of my major gripes about Torchlight - that you couldn’t remap the controls - has actually been addressed. There were still things to like about it, though, and I was in the mood for some more pretty-but-brainless hacking and slashing and then Torchlight II went on sale on gog.com. Fixed an issue where characters sometimes rotate incorrectly when moving towards the edge of the navmesh with the gamepad.You’re right, I was a bit ambivalent about the first Torchlight, even though I got it for free.Added middle mouse icon shortcut for keybinding.When loading into the Title and Character Select screens, and when traveling, players should no longer see a big stall and the overall load time should be faster.Hide the Portal skill until the player can actually access it (Imperial Outpost quest).Fixed the Sharpshooter’s bow appearing disconnected in Character Create screen.expected defense so that you can get higher amounts of mitigation by achieving more optimized defense. Increased the amount of damage mitigation based on ratio of actual vs.Fast-moving projectiles should no longer pass through targets without hitting them.Updated and renamed several bows.Ĭlasses and skills were adjusted for sharpshooter, dusk mage, forged, and railmaster. Implemented 11 new bow items across common, magic and rare qualities.The term 'Phasic' no longer appears in the name of lifebound items. Scrolls of Unbinding continue to be dropped from bosses. In addition, all items that drop in Phase Dungeons (entered via Phase Beast portals) have a much higher chance of being lifebound (nearly 100%). After level 7, there's a general 10% chance that a non-legendary weapon or armor that is dropped will be lifebound. Fixed so lifebound items will drop once again.Potential fix for potion UI not updating after travel.Changed shields to pick between standard defense primary affix (the same as chest or pants/locomotion) and a stronger (x1.5) primary defense affix and between a standard block chance (what it was before) and a higher block chance (roughly double).Additionally, more bow items were added, in addition to the ability to disenchant normal items: Specifically, shields have been tweaked, with fixes to UI and lifebound items.

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